I'm a Firefox user and that's not going to change anytime soon, but this memory leak stuff has gotten out of hand. Is there any way to fix it using the browser's own Task Manager (Burger Menu > More Tools > Task Manager) or some other way that doesn't involve restarting the browser? It's become more and more frequent and annoying.
Admittedly, I have created an absolute ton of bloat through years of use and countless tinkering, so I'm not surprised it runs badly. But it wasn't this bad in the past, now I feel like I have to restart it every few hours, or it will lag like hell.
Another anon mentioned a few days ago that it's a YouTube issue, so maybe I'll need to pay attention to that. I constantly have it on in the background as I work on other stuff.
>>107067085 (OP)
chances are, it's some of your extensions that leak the memory and not firefox itself.
Anonymous
10/31/2025, 11:07:51 PM
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I haven't got a memory leak with Firefox in like five years at least
Anonymous
10/31/2025, 11:09:40 PM
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>>107067120
That's entirely possible, I've got a ton of them. The next time it happens, I'm going to see if there's some way to restart them from the browser's Task Manager. It seems to offer a separate category for extensions as well as an X button. Hopefully it won't break my browser.
Anonymous
10/31/2025, 11:10:45 PM
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No, I just close FF every day or two. Today my room was getting really hot so I checked task manager, sure enough FF was up at 18gb of RAM and 20% CPU doing absolutely nothing.
Anonymous
10/31/2025, 11:13:01 PM
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>>107067209
>>107067085 (OP)
>Another anon mentioned a few days ago that it's a YouTube issue
It definitely is. I have disabled my updates on 135.0.1 and it was completely fine for quite a while until a few weeks ago YT started running like shit. It can also be some addon causing this since I haven't disabled the addon updates but I highly doubt it.
Anonymous
10/31/2025, 11:15:13 PM
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>>107067184
>I haven't disabled the addon updates but I highly doubt it.
You should set them to manual, that way at least you know what's updating. It's something that Chromium doesn't let you do, last I checked, which is very weird to me. The only one I have on auto is uBlock Origin.
Anonymous
11/1/2025, 2:09:26 AM
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You have to open and close it occasionally
The devs will never acknowledge it being a real issue, they'll just cope and say things like
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